ms. j's recommends

• (Bulgakov, Mikhail) The Master and Margarita
• 1. (Walser, Robert) Jakob von Gunten
• 2. (Kafka, Franz) Metamorphosis
• 3. (Ajvaz, Michal) The Other City
• ✔ (Calvino, Italo) Invisible Cities
• (Wallace, David Foster)
• (Matthew, Harry) My Life in the CIA
• (McCarthy, Cormac)

classics

• (Tolstoy, Leo) Anna Karenina
• (Melville, Herman) Moby Dick
• (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor) The Brothers Karamazov
• (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) This Side of Paradise
• ✔ (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) The Great Gatsby
• (Ellison, Ralph) Invisible Man
• ✔ (Austen, Jane) Pride and Prejudice
• (Hugo, Victor) Les Misérables
• (Nabokov, Vladimir) Lolita

novels

• (Chabon, Michael) Telegraph Avenue * *
• (Krauss, Nicole) The History of Love
• (Foer, Jonathan Safran) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• ✔ (Mitchell, David) Cloud Atlas
• ✔ (Mitchell, David) Black Swan Green
• (Lewis, Sinclair) Babbitt
• (Pynchon, Thomas) The Crying of Lot 49
• (Morrison, Toni) Song of Solomon
• (Marquez, Gabriel Garcia) Love in the Time of Cholera
• (Suskind, Patrick) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

short stories

• (Hemingway, Ernest) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

non-fiction

• (Capote, Truman) In Cold Blood

auto/biographies

• (Redniss, Lauren) Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

letters

• (Spanier, Sandra & Trogdon, Robert W.) The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922
• (Neumeyer, Peter F.) Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
• (Steinbeck, Elaine & Wallsten, Robert) Steinbeck: A Life in Letters